smc-python

Python based library to provide the ability to interact with the Forcepoint NGFW Management Center API. Provides automation capabilities for any environment that interact with the SMC remotely.

Some of the functionality you get with the SMC Python API:

• Create any engine types; single firewall, cluster firewalls, ips engines, layer 2 firewalls, master engine and virtual engines.
• Engine operations such as enabling/disabling AV, GTI, default NAT, Contact Addresses, etc
• Interface configurations
• Routing configurations (OSPF, BGP, Static, Antispoofing)
• Engine level commands such as rebooting, going offline, policy push, enable/disable SSH, etc.
• Create and modify all network element objects such as Host, Network, Address Ranges, Domain Names, etc.
• Policy control (create rules, delete rules) for layer 3 firewall policies
• VPN Policy control and creation
• Management / Log Server settings configuration
• Admin User creation and modification
• System level controls; update system packages, update engines, global blacklisting, etc
• Tasks
• Search operations for any object type by name, href and by filter
• Collections interface to view all objects by type

Requirements

Python >= 2.7 or >= 3.5

Requests >= 2.12.0 Websocket >= 0.2.1

Security Management Center version >= 6.0

Getting Started

Installing package

From git:

pip install git+https://github.com/Forcepoint/fp-NGFW-SMC-python.git

Or after cloning:

python setup.py install

Testing

Included are a variety of test example scripts that leverage the API to do various tasks in /examples

Basics

Before any commands are run, you must obtain a login session. Once commands are complete, call session.logout() to remove the active session. To obtain the api_key, log in to the Forcepoint NGFW Management Center and create an API client with the proper privileges.

from smc import session

session.login(url='http://1.1.1.1:8082', api_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxx')
....do stuff....
session.logout()

Or log in to a specific Admin Domain and use a specific version of the API:

session.login(url='http://1.1.1.1:8082', api_key='xxxxxxxxxxxxx',
              domain=mydomain, api_version=6.2)
....do stuff....
session.logout()

Once a valid session is obtained, it will be re-used for each operation for the duration of the sessions validity, or until the program is exited.

Extensions

Extensions are available to smc-python that provide additional functionality besides what is provided in the base library. Extensions are kept separate as they may require additional package requirements and simplify packaging.

Available extensions:

• smc-python-monitoring: Monitoring for SMC connections, blacklists, users, VPNs, alerts, etc. In addition this package provides the ability to 'subscribe' to administrative event modifications.

Extensions are found in the base smc-python repository as namespace packages and each is housed in it's own sub-directory of this base package.

Pull Requests

Pull requests are accepted and welcome but they could not be merged as are. Indeed, we are using internal repository in order to validate and integrate these changes. But they could be released later on following our road map.

Documentation

View Documentation on Read The Docs